Pith Number

pith:HNVZKQRN

pith:2019:HNVZKQRNTVH5PFD4SLWUCIFNED

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A New Approach to Distributed Hypothesis Testing and Non-Bayesian Learning: Improved Learning Rate and Byzantine-Resilience

Aritra Mitra, John A. Richards, Shreyas Sundaram

arxiv:1907.03588 v1 · 2019-07-05 · eess.SY · cs.IT · cs.LG · cs.SY · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HNVZKQRNTVH5PFD4SLWUCIFNED}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:41:14.248072Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3b6b95422d9d4fd7947c92ed4120ad20f40148fe5a995178466c80dfdf7ec785

Aliases

arxiv: 1907.03588 · arxiv_version: 1907.03588v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.03588 · pith_short_12: HNVZKQRNTVH5 · pith_short_16: HNVZKQRNTVH5PFD4 · pith_short_8: HNVZKQRN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HNVZKQRNTVH5PFD4SLWUCIFNED \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 3b6b95422d9d4fd7947c92ed4120ad20f40148fe5a995178466c80dfdf7ec785

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "de967e9675b07def8706f8879966340370aa49d9618967b30a1b8409133f18d2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.SY",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "eess.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2019-07-05T17:16:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48a4f205ad961e4000fe6677a3aac0258f03f138aa3df2c39f356c9af77b2612"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1907.03588",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}